Are people stupid?

This is pretty funny:

Walking home to her Upper East Side apartment, she said, overwhelmed and confused, she stopped at a bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she quietly listened to two men, neatly dressed in suits. For a second she thought they were going to compare that day’s horrifying attack to the Japanese bombing in 1941 that blew America into World War II:

“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.

The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”

“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.

Are people stupid? Everyone is stupid sometimes. Are they smart? See: "Are people stupid?" above.

Compared to what? Dolphins?

most people don't deserve to live. just my opinion.

off yourself then!

most people don't deserve to die.

"This is just like Pearl Harbor."

"What's Pearl Harbor?"

"You know, that movie with Ben Affleck?"

I'm smart and most of the people I know are smart in one way or another. It's rare that I meet someone I think is truly stupid.

Most people just don't care about a lot of the stuff that people who say "people are stupid" care about. Short-termism seems to be a near universal human failing, tho.

universal human failing

hey i just found this site through momus' blog! hi guys!

Good choice of inaugural thread to introduce yourself within.

so I had some packages for work shipped to this FedEx location overnight, with my name is the POC for pickup. They were both supposed to come in this morning so I grab a coworker and go down to the FedEx where they're being held and wait in line and tell dude "I'm here to pick up two packages for Jonathan Williams" and he goes and looks in the hold cabinet and gets an express letter out and hands it to me. He looks at my DL to confirm that I am in fact Jonathan Williams and I say "There should be two?" and he goes BACK and looks AGAIN and says "no, only one."

So we return to the office and I check the tracking numbers and yes indeed the other package WAS delivered at 9:56 AM and is awaiting pickup. I call them back "Uhhh welcome to finland what's your deal" and dude (same guy at the pickup counter from before) says "oh, the other one says Jon Williams, not Jonathan, is why I didn't give it to you"

why bother google proofing

tom you should get an iphone if you had an iphone you could have looked up the #'s on the internets while @ FedEx and then powned the guy in person

is that better for you catsup dddddddude

why should I need to spend $300 + service charges in order to help compensate for the gross incompetence of shipping company personnel

i was kidding. sorry about the douches

yeah so infuriating